Monthly Archives: August 2008

Homework assignment for week one (what I mentioned on Monday)

28 Thursday Aug 2008

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First – a reminder – anything you post to this blog in the comments section is accessible to the “whole wide world”. Therefore I recommend you think before you post. Do you want what you are about to write to be used as a way for potentially the “whole wide world” to evaluate your intelligence? (:))

Imagine being “googled” …

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Okay – now about the homework assignment I mentioned on the first day of lecture this week. I am planning to explain it more tomorrow in class as I show you how to blog and what I expect from you in blogging for this class.

The homework assignment is for you to have done by Wednesday of week two.

In order to understand the homework assignment as I explain it in detail tomorrow in class, you will need to read this link – http://blogs.bgsu.edu/radhik/langdon-winner-do-artifacts-have-politics/

also read about the sections on Technological Environments (starting para 9) and Progress Narratives in the following article – http://www.rhizomes.net/issue4/gajjala.html

see you in the Library computer lab tomorrow at 2.30 pm!

r

Day two of class – secondlife workshop

27 Wednesday Aug 2008

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Today we have eight graduate student researchers who were assisting as I delivered the workshop on secondlife in the student tech center. This morning I had “synced’ rad Zabibha’s outfit with what I was wearing RL.

It was a good class period. Everyone got their secondlife avatars and joined Rad’s Cybergeeks group. They all teleported into the Bowling Green’s Cybergeeks area on Educator’s Coop Island where rad and Cyb own land.

I am looking forward to the journalling from all class members once they set up their blogs on Friday.

See you all on Friday! Class is in the Lab in the Library on Friday.

On Monday I will give you your reading schedule and explain how you need to do the reading related reports.

r

Class – day one…

25 Monday Aug 2008

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I enjoyed meeting you all. Please do get your blogs and also put a link to your blog when you submit your introductory comments here.

see you wednesday – trying to get us a lab still. …

also if your comment on my blog does not appear immediate – dont worry – I have set it so I have to approve it before it appears. That also means that – yes, I am reading every one of them:)

Welcome all members of IPC 411, Fall 2008 (and soon to be cybergeeks on Secondlife)

24 Sunday Aug 2008

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Welcome – Please read course information, assignments, schedule and announcements on the blackboard module. All other class based discussion will happen via the blogs, in secondlife and other online venues in addition to face-to-face discussion when we meet offline in the classroom in Olscamp.

As you blog -it is important to remember that your audience is anyone who can access the Internet and is interested in digitally mediated identities, communication, secondlife, blogs, web 2.0 based learning and research online. So even though you will need to keep in mind that your blog audience will not always have the same context as our class. Therefore when you post, elaborate on the context. Also remember that anything you blog now will be “google-able” in the long run and be read by others in later years – so audience across time, space, place – geography, culture, politics, generations and more must be kept in mind as much as possible when you blog. You should focus on posting about things that can help you work on and think about your class readings and projects in addition to the required amount of posting that will be explained to you on blackboard announcements and in class regularly.

Commenting on posts by your classmates is important for dialogue. This will give you a chance to explore the ideas and resources suggested by others in the class. The key idea here is that we want to share our expertise as well as explore new areas. Thus a post or comment may be as long like but will not be evaluated on number of words; rather, I will look at the value of the posts and comments for the class and subject matter at hand.

You may post as often and as much as you like, but you will be required to post and comment each week – the minimum should not be what you aim for if you expect an A in class – however I will periodically announce the weekly minimum of posts and comments based on what we do in class on Secondlife and in Olscamp. The idea is that we want to have ongoing community interactions. If you miss posting one week because of travel or illness, we will have a makeup week in November.

This blog has pages, categories, tags and a blog roll with links as well. I will help you navigate the structure visually in class so you know where to look for what.

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